Tales From Beaverdam – New Column for the Advertiser Print Edition

Tales From Beaverdam – New Column for the Advertiser Print Edition

By Julian Landrum Mims III, Ph.D. The readers of our area have something to look forward to – a series of articles that Julian Mims, who grew up on Buncombe Street and attended the schools in Edgefield, offered to this newspaper.  They are full of humor, provoking nostalgia and evoking memories.  The stories reach back […]

Edgefield Republican Party Cancels Town Hall, Plans Organizational Meeting

Edgefield Republican Party Cancels Town Hall, Plans Organizational Meeting

The Edgefield County Republican Party has canceled plans for a Town Hall for June 4 and instead is having an organizational meeting on June 2, with the possibility of hearing from the three Republican candidates for Solicitor, Circuit 11.  They have been invited to the Thursday, June 2 meeting. The following press release gives the […]

Ellen Lewis Fountain, Martinez, GA

Martinez, GA—Ellen Lewis Fountain went to meet her Lord and Savior, on May 29, 2016 at Trinity Hospital of Augusta, following a long illness. Graveside services will be held at 1:00 pm on Thursday, June 2, 2016, at Bellevue Memorial Gardens, Grovetown, GA, with Trinity Hospice Chaplain Tom Kolliokoski officiating. Ellen was very much adored, […]

The Importance of Work

The Importance of Work

I want to continue my theme that most of life’s issues are “non-respecter of person issues. When I reflect on creation, one of the things we often don’t think about is that one of the first things God did after creating man was to give him a job: “Then the Lord God took the man […]

Adult Learning Center in Johnston Damaged

Adult Learning Center in Johnston Damaged

The Edgefield County Sheriff’s Office was notified Friday, May 27, of damage to property at the Adult Learning Center in Johnston.  According to the ECSO report, unknown persons have been taking mail out of the center’s mailbox located at the driveway of the center.  Mail was found strewn about the lawn of the school.  Additionally, […]

Mrs. Lenolia Whitt Rowland Rainsford – Edgefield, SC

Mrs. Lenolia Whitt Rowland Rainsford, 91, wife of the late John Rainsford, Jr., entered into rest on Monday, May 30, 2016 at Edgefield County Hospital. Her graveside service will be held at 11:00 AM on Wednesday, June 1, 2016 in St. Mary’s Catholic Church Cemetery, Edgefield, SC with Rev. Andy Hunter officiating. Mrs. Rainsford was a […]

Strom Thurmond High School, 2016 Graduates

Strom Thurmond High School, 2016 Graduates

Congratulations to: Leo James Antuna, Christopher Paul Armstrong, Malcolm Jamal Axen, Dalton Ellis Bagshaw, Derek Arthur Barnhart, Joshua Davis Barton, Titus Cordell Bean, Quianna Renee Berry, Aleshia Moquita Blacks, Aliya Porscha Blacks, Jermiah Christopher Blocker, Samuel Jackson Blythe, Brittney Elizabeth Boatwright, Marquis Anthony Brooks, Caitlyn Brice Brown, Keati DeVarje Buchanan, Aaliyah Shavon Buckhanon, Shuron Al-Keim […]

Statewide deer harvest decreases in 2015

Statewide deer harvest decreases in 2015

Results of the 2015 Deer Hunter Survey conducted by the S.C. Department of Natural Resources indicate that the statewide harvest of deer decreased about 4 percent last season, not surprising given the poor hunting conditions last fall. An estimated 111,035 bucks and 83,995 does made up a total harvest of 195,030, according to Charles Ruth, […]

Welcome the Stranger (Continued)

Welcome the Stranger (Continued)

Readers who follow the news will recognize that we as a society have been of several minds about what to do about refugees in America. To some, political refugees might be terrorists – that is, hidden among several thousand refugees from Syria and other predominantly Muslim countries might be individuals who are sham refugees; they […]